On this page, we'll list all of the books and short stories in our classes so that we use so that we don't have any overlap.
5th
6th Prentice Hall Literature (short stories) - this will be new for next year and will cross with the writing curriculum, for example it will incorporate comparing and contrasting written pieces of work Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix (but I don't think we will be using this novel next year, it will be replaced with short stories from Prentice Hall Literature) Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Biographies - done after reading Freak the Mighty (examples, Maya Angelou, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gorbachev, Hirohito, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Lincoln, Jesse Ventura, etc.) Nory Ryan Song by Patricia Reilly Giff The Eygpt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
7th Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (L.A. and Social Studies) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Supported Reading class) Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (Reading lit circles) The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Reading lit circles) The Giver by Lois Lowry (Reading lit circles) The Misfits by James Howe (Reading lit circles) I used to use Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, but I don't think I will next year since I am going to try to build the students' reading skills using their independent reading books instead. In literature circles, the students are allowed to choose their second books for the marking period. Some of their choices in the past have been: The Candymakers by Wendy Mass, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Monster by Walter Dean Myers.
8th
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare I have also used To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Animal Farm by George Orwell
5th
6th
Prentice Hall Literature (short stories) - this will be new for next year and will cross with the writing curriculum, for example it will incorporate comparing and contrasting written pieces of work
Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix (but I don't think we will be using this novel next year, it will be replaced with short stories from Prentice Hall Literature)
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Biographies - done after reading Freak the Mighty (examples, Maya Angelou, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gorbachev, Hirohito, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Lincoln, Jesse Ventura, etc.)
Nory Ryan Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Eygpt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
7th
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (L.A. and Social Studies)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Supported Reading class)
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (Reading lit circles)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Reading lit circles)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (Reading lit circles)
The Misfits by James Howe (Reading lit circles)
I used to use Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, but I don't think I will next year since I am going to try to build the students' reading skills using their independent reading books instead.
In literature circles, the students are allowed to choose their second books for the marking period. Some of their choices in the past have been: The Candymakers by Wendy Mass, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Monster by Walter Dean Myers.
8th
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
I have also used To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Animal Farm by George Orwell